Chapel at St Philomenas Convent is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. Chapel. 18 related planning applications.
Chapel at St Philomenas Convent
- WRENN ID
- dark-stair-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel at St Philomenas Convent, Pound Street, SM5 3PS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 274 644
- Coordinates
- 51.36491, -0.17012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chapel at St Philomena's Convent, built between 1899 and 1900 and designed by E Ingress Bell, is a rectangular structure featuring a gabled roof and a tower at the southeast end. The building has brick walls with stone dressings and knapped flint work, comprising a nave, chancel, and east aisle chapel. The entrance is located on the south gable end, showcasing a moulded two-centred stone doorway flanked by single light windows with cusped heads. Above the entrance, there is a stone statue of the Virgin in a niche with a stone canopy, surrounded by two additional windows with cusped heads, all enclosed by a stone arch.
To the east and partly at the rear, a brick tower is adorned with decorative courses of flint and stone, topped with an octagonal lantern and a short broach spire. The west front consists of eight bays, each defined by a brick pilaster and hexafoil, with a moulded plinth and toothed brick courses above the windows. A triple lancet window is present in the chancel. Inside, there is an organ loft above the vestibule at the south end of the nave, and a pieta is located in the vestibule. The nave features pointed arches and a vaulted roof, with the walls of the nave, side aisle, and vestibule entirely lined with a finely executed mosaic decoration, which appears to be inspired by Byzantine sources. The chancel walls, floor, and altar table are lined with inlaid marble in the Italian style.
Local climate
Chapel at St Philomenas Convent sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 18 applications
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